Join us in the Cordingley Room for an author talk with Sally Thompson. Buy her books and get to know her at 4:30 PM, and the reading will start at 5 PM.
THINK AGAIN: Unexpected Stories along the Missouri River
Come hear award-winning author Sally Thompson tell some stories from two new books -- Disturbing the Sleeping Buffalo (Farcountry ‘24) and Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World (Bison
Books ’24). Through the years she has encountered many unexpected threads in the tapestry of Montana history, including some from the Upper Missouri Country. She will take you into the timeless realm of the Blackfeet and other tribes to look with new eyes at the history we thought we knew.
Award-winning author Sally Thompson grew up in Denver, where the Front Range of the Rockies oriented her to the world. She got her first pair of cowboy boots when she was four, the same year she became aware of native people, and set her course in that direction. She received her PhD in anthropology at the University of Colorado in 1980, the same year she moved to Missoula. Her dissertation focused on human adaptation to climate change on the Great Plains, never dreaming of its future significance.
She has worked as an archaeologist, ethnographer, ethnohistorian and filmmaker. For the last thirty years, she has worked in collaboration with indigenous communities in Montana and New Mexico in various capacities.
Since retiring, Sally continues to do consulting work, write historical non-fiction, travel, and spend time with her family in this beautiful state we are fortunate enough to call home.
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